[Anh_Minh]

Spoiler for 35:

I think it turned out well. Better than we had any right to hope, really. I hope the father lets it go at that.

Thoughts on the different characters:
- Aoki: good. Seems he learnt to think before speaking, and to keep his eyes on the ball: Rin's welfare and happiness.
- Reiji: rattled. Very rattled. But I don't feel like being hard on him, because, hey, the guy he spent years hating is trying to steal his most precious person away. I don't see anything he did as particularly jerk-like, except maybe letting it out on Rin when he saw her all dolled up. The tea-cup? What is that compared to the violence of threatening to steal your daughter from you? Speaking of the abortion? Look at it from his point of view. The father was making a good job of being... charming, I suppose. Of looking like a nice guy. But as far as Reiji knew, he was a bastard who'd abandoned Aki and wanted Rin to not be born. It was important that Rin knew that, despite his airs, he was the enemy.
- the father: I think I'll trust Rin's assessment that he's not a bad person, but the circumstances of the break-up still don't leave him smelling of roses. When it became obvious Aki wouldn't budge, why did he leave her alone? Even if by then, their relationship was fubared, he should have made an effort to stay involved with Rin, of supporting her. Instead of leaving them alone and not even know how they were doing for years.
And if he'd just, I don't know, made contact and let it be known he wanted to mend things, and was available for whatever Rin needed or wanted, that'd be something. But what he did was come in with a lawyer to enforce his selfish will. It's barely above coming in there with a gun and kidnapping Rin.
- Rin: as expected, she's strong, and wise.